This is a summary of important goals for the Fedora Engineering team for Red Hat Fiscal Year 2018 (March 2017 - February 2018).
Please note this is not a comprehensive list. Many team members have numerous additional goals for contribution to the project. In addition, all team members work with the community ad-hoc throughout the year to troubleshoot problems, mentor new contributors, and create additional opportunities for community participation.
While Red Hat employees on the team are accountable for the progress of these goals, each one is fully open to the community to participate. Contribution is essential to achieving these goals, and we want and need the community's help! In Fedora, there is no such thing as "someone else's problem." We are all part of the solution. The indicator of a lead person shows accountability for whatever work the Fedora Engineering team has committed to. It may not be the same as a person leading an overall project.
The release engineering priority pipeline includes additional back end technical work going on in Fedora teams.
Infrastructure and General
To help with these goals, contact the Infrastructure team -- #fedora-admin[?].
| Description | Lead Person | Alley-oop | Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stand up OpenShift test and production instances for app development/deployment | kfenzi | puiterwijk | Q2 |
| Create community accessible repo for Fedora statistics reporting and customization | ssmoogen | Q3 | |
| Apps deployed in production OpenShift: first wave (paste, other as needed) | relrod | puiterwijk | Q2 |
| Apps deployed in production OpenShift: next wave | kfenzi, relrod | puiterwijk | Q3/Q4 |
| Upgrade of Openstack | relrod | puiterwijk | Q3/Q4 |
| Security review of application deployments | puiterwijk | Q1-Q4 (continuous) | |
| Coordinate and execute PHX2 mass move of Fedora infra | ssmoogen | Q2-Q4 | |
| Establish SLEs, publish via infra-docs, coordinate w/ other community infra | kfenzi | Q4 | |
| Establish database replication across all database services | kfenzi | Q4 |
Release Infrastructure
Team members participate in rel-eng work as well, especially Adam Miller, Randy Barlow, Kushal Das, and Sayan Chowdhury. Note that additional release infrastructure development is tracked at ReleaseEngineering/PriorityPipeline.
| Description | Lead Person | Alley-oop | Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| OSBS orchestration/worker cluster | maxamillion | Q2 | |
| Streamline Bodhi mash process | kushal | Q2/Q3 | |
| OSBS multi-arch containers buildable | maxamillion | Q3 | |
| Bodhi related updates for coordinating pushes | bowlofeggs | Q3/Q4 | |
| Openshift metrics / reporting | maxamillion | Q4? |
Application development
To help with these goals, contact the Infrastructure Applications team -- #fedora-apps[?].
| Description | Lead Person | Alley-oop | Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anitya refactoring and reword | jcline | Q1/Q2 | |
| Bodhi gains abstract concept of content to allow other types | bowlofeggs | Q2 | |
| Critical performance review and fixes for Pagure (general) | puiterwijk | Q2 DONE | |
| Fixes for FMN to accommodate CI requirements | jcline | pingou | Q2 |
| Pagure over dist-git (to allow PR workflow for packages/tests) | pingou | Q2 DONE | |
| Complete server and client rollouts for new fpaste | relrod | Q2 DONE | |
| FMN rewrite | jcline | Q3? | |
| Bodhi container support | bowlofeggs | jcline | Q3/Q4 |
| Message API for fedmsg (tentative) | jcline | Q4? moved to FY19 | |
| Application development SOPs | Whole team | jcline | Q2-Q4 (continuous) |
Design and content
To help with these goals, contact the Design team -- #fedora-design[?].
| Description | Category | Lead Person | Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flock deliverables. Media, collateral, and other design work for Flock 2017. | General design | Ryan Lerch | Q2 |
| Design mentorship. Provide mentoring and assistance to key FOSS interns e.g. Outreachy, working on active team projects. Cultivate new contribution via Fedora Design team. | Outreach | Máirín Duffy | Q2, Q4 |
| Patternlab. Establish atoms, molecules, organisms for use along with fedora-bootstrap for standardized design in Fedora apps. | General design | Máirín Duffy | Q3 |
| Magazine editorial. Drive record number of pageviews in FY2017 through contributor outreach and content curation. Turn over editorial reins. | Collateral/marketing | Ryan Lerch | Q1-4 (continuous) |
Kernel
To help with these goals, contact the Kernel team -- #fedora-kernel[?].
Team High Level Goals
- Plan for and deliver high quality kernel for upcoming Fedora releases
- Improve team efficiency and community collaboration
- Increase participation in upstream kernel community
Goals
Specific action items will be derived from these goals.
| Description | Category | Lead Person | Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| Increase upstream kernel reviews and bugfixes. Upstream is continually looking for additional patch reviews. By increasing our participation there we can help avoid bugs. We'll also use this to increase our team's overall knowledge by gaining a deeper understanding of various focus areas within the kernel. | Upstream | ||
| Publish various communications about the Fedora kernel. The kernel is often a hot topic in various communities. We'll look at continuing the upstream Fedora patch reports, and possibly writing articles for Fedora Magazine. | Collaboration | ||
| Community Outreach The Fedora kernel community has several active members but could always improve. Through efforts like Outreachy, we can grow the understanding and expertise of interested community members. | Outreach | ||
| Improved popular platform support People like to use their hardware with a minimum amount of fuss. Look into ways to accomplish this for popular hardware. | Hardware enablement | ||
| Architecture support The primary Fedora platform is x86_64. However, there are always interesting things happening on other architectures such as armv7hl, arm64, etc. We'll investigate possible areas where we as a team can help further progress or provide solutions with these architectures. | Architecture |
Work Items
| Description | Lead Person | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Upstream patch reviews and bugfixes | All | FY |
| Blog/magazine postings on kernel topics | All | FY |
| Release maintenance | All | FY |
Problems